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Isn't this Obree's bike from his not-to-be 2009 bid at the hour record?

It's LFGSS's worst-kept secret, that everyone else frantically searches other threads (gifs etc) looking for spotter's posts to they can cross-post them to the meme thread in the vain hope that he won't notice.

I have my own webspace and have used wordpress but its text handling is awful. Not so much to look at, but it never seems to pay the least bit of attention to the formatting you apply, particularly if you want different sizes in the same post (at least if you are in noob mode, which I always am). Since you know about such things, what exactly is it about the way that html handles text that means it can't look really nice (like, for example, LaTeX typesetting?) I've never understood the distinction.

Thread resuscitation #2. Which blog sites have nice text handling? In my experience, most of the platforms seem to make the text look like it's come straight from a BBC Micro or Acorn. Surely there must be some platform with pretty text handling?

Rim bearings? What even is that thing?!

Deja vu?

Pifko Repped.

I'll hazard a guess that the sets of people who are 'victims' of GDA and the people who make 'those anime cutouts' have a heavy overlap:

http://i.imgur.com/kZYrV.jpg

Dented forkless Cervelo anyone?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330725152590#ht_1278wt_1185

"Not a load bearing tube so it doesn't affect integrity of frame"

Never realised the top tube wasn't load bearing. Why don't we save weight like this:

Oh this is a road bike. Something like this:

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Cannondale-SR400-vintage-road-bike-1987-Team-Comp-/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/$(KGrHqQOKnUE53D9Tk52BOfift79kg~~60_12.JPG

Great, thanks for the advice.

Anything that can be done to improve the ride? I know carbon or steel fork swaps are pretty common. What do you have on your 'dales?

Hello all

Looking at getting a cheap used Cannondale (SR400). Are there any problems I should be aware of? I'm aware that ride quality is probably going to be pretty uncomfortable on an 80's Alu frame after riding predominantly steel bikes. Anything to watch out for?

My self-realisation was more:

gif consipiracy thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

badly listed 'dale
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/cannondale-racer-bike-/140743747803?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item20c4fb28db#ht_500wt_1156

Sadly I think it's also a stolen 'dale.

When they do the air cannon car flip stunts, the cannon is mounted inside the car. It's a big piece of mild steel tube with a piece of telegraph pole which gets rammed out under pressure. Here, you have a manhole in the ground on a residential street. There is no way of rigging that up as an air cannon. Regardless of whether it is staged or not, the car does flip because of the metal grille which is welded to the manhole cover. Look as the car rolls and you'll see it bounce on the ground. It's clearly caught on the car, and the corner has been severely bent up by the forces involved. The fact it's a residential street with peds walking around would seem to suggest it is highly unlikely that it is a setup. Unlike with an air cannon, the crash is entirely uncontrolled, and you wouldn't risk having the car fly off into someone's house/the pavement and kill someone.

I find it very had to believe that there would be pedestrians wandering around in the impact zone if it was a planned stunt.

Gys pls, you're not looking closely enough. If you look at the manhole when it bounces off the pavement, you'll see it is welded to a heavy duty grille (off centre).
Like this:

The manhole is more like a deep cylindrical section. I would assume the corner of the grille which is welded to it was sticking up which caught something on the undercarriage of the car. The thickness of the manhole suggests it is wedged pretty hard into the hole, allowing it to anchor the instantaneous load when the car hits, at least enough to allow the car to be flipped. If you look at the grille when it hits the floor, it is heavily deformed (though still attached to the manhole), evidencing the large forces it has borne before the manhole was ripped out of the ground.

For those wondering about hills, I did the island fixed this weekend on 42-16 and though the South East is pretty hilly, if you're willing to go for it then its OK. I'm not particularly fit at the moment and it really wasn't too bad, there is little in the way of really sustained grinding climbs. There are a couple of nasty inclines, particularly round Shanklin-Ventnor, but for the most part they are short and sharp and just need a burst of commitment.

Troll science that ^. In order to float with them on board, the door would need to displace a mass of water which is greater than the combined mass of Leo and Kate as well as the door itself. If the door is about 2.4 x 0.8 m, and let's say it has a usual door thickness of around 5cm, it would displace 0.096m of water. That's 96kg. The door itself is likely to weigh at least 20kg, if not more (since it's probably some fancy mahogany thing,) which means there is only capacity for an extra 76kg. If we assume a bit of leeway for the foor being thicker/lighter, it still only works out as about enough for one person, something in the 80kg region. An average male and female combined would be about 140kg, which would be way too much.

are you saying your post was a pre-cursa to the troubles?

Cowbell be frontin' all over the mix.

kitlanz pls

From a close reading of the sentiments in this thread, almost all of you will want to change your desktop backgrounds to this:

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/090/0/0/gooby_pls_by_goobyplz-d4uksaq.png